I agree that she was wrong...but here is my question: Is there a record of the accident? The reason I ask the question is that while I very much doubt he deliberately inflicted those wounds on himself, the medical reports as well as his length of time over there would be the most damning of her statements. Refute her skeptical cynicism with the truth.

While I admire her for sticking up for Bush, and using logic to do so, it is too bad that she didn't use that same insight to lambaste Cleland on his Senate record rather than his service record. That would have been fair game as a public servant and duly elected official

Nothing wrong with stating the facts -- especially when Cleland seems to have been so loose with them.

I sent St. Ann's column to my brother, a Marine Corps veteran of Vietnam. Guess what. He agrees with St. Ann.

Cleland was injured in either a very unlucky accident or an act of utter stupidity. That's too bad but the bottom line is that he's not a wounded hero any more than a guy hurt in a peacetime training accident.
Coulter owes no apology for pointing that out.
I don't live in Georgia, I don't know that Cleland ever tried to claim wounded hee-row status. I do know that lots of Dems have tried to claim it for him. By that logic I should have gotten half a dozen medals for that unfortunate incident in Boot Camp's KP week involving the potato peeler. After all I spent more time in the hospital for sitting on a potato peeler and knicking an artery than I did for my second heart in Eye Corps.
There's a difference between getting wounded in action and injured in an accident.

Here's a link to a Pentagon webpage about how Max Cleland was REALLY wounded:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Jan2000/n01272000_20001274.html

It also tells about his long recovery, and his work to make the VA serve veterans better.

And here's a link that describe's Cleland's Silver Star for gallantry in combat:

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20021026/opinion/372490.html

Ann Coulter is a dirty liar. She's spitting on a Vietnam vet.

Ann Cvnt Coulter has taken it to a new low with this one.

There used to be a time when you didn't speak ill of a veteran, especially a wounded vet. Regardless of how his injuries were sustained, he came back home missing limbs.

This fucking cunt of a woman, herself never wearing the uniform, thinks she can smear him because of something she invents in her twisted mind? MOst of you pricks here probably jerk off to thoughts of her rancid snatch so no wonder you dont condemn this.

You really fucked up this time, Ann. You were more or less dismissed by any rational, sane person of either political persuaion prior to this but now you had to push it one step further. You really are a deluded lying beanpole who couldn't come if you wretched, miserable existance depended on it.

Ann Coulter is known for her cowardice and her incompetence, so it is no surprise that she would attack a man who (unlike "sissy boy" George Bush) was brave enough to go to war and bleed for his country. Like all Republicans, Coulter is a pampered, Un-American loser, who is all talk and no action. Niether Ann nor any member of her pathetic family, ever served in the millitary. While Democrats have bravely gone to war for our country, Republicans have hid out at National Guard bases and [deleted profanity] themselves. Republicans are parasites on America. Coulter is a jealous old hag, [deleted profanity]. Coulter is also a disgrace to America and a coward and traitor of the highest order.